Page 70 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, Bear 't that th

Page xvii - No other equal portion of the work of Herodotus exhibits so remarkable a coherence, continuity, and freedom from digression, interruption, or asides as this the third and last volume, or trio, of Books.

Page lxxvi - No ancient historian was really a scientific and critical historian, as these terms are nowadays understood : Thucydides himself will not stand untarnished the tests of the modern analyst.